Shout Lula

DESCRIPTION: Dance tune "Shout Lulu, shout shout/What in the world you shoutin' about?" "How many nickels does it take/To see little Lulu's body shake?/It takes a nickel and it takes a dime/To see little Lulu cut her shine"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (recording, Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis)
KEYWORDS: sex money dancing bawdy dancetune nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Rosenbaum-FolkVisionsAndVoices, p. 140, "Shout, Lulu" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 201, "Lulie" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #4202
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys, "Shout, Oh Lulu" (Vocalion 04867/OKeh 04867, 1939; rec. 1938)
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Shout Little Lulu" (on Ashley01)
Clarence Ashley & Jack Burchett, "Shout Lulu" (on WatsonAshley01)
Homer Brierhopper, "Little Lulie" (Decca 5615, c. 1938)
W. Guy Bruce, "Shout Lulu" (on FolkVisions1)
Samantha Bumgarner. "Shout Lou" (Columbia 146-D, 1924; Harmony 5094-H [as Luella Gardner], n.d.)
Carver Boys, "Sleeping Lula" (Paramount 3199, 1930; rec. 1929)
Elizabeth Cotten, "Oh Miss Lulie Gal" (on Cotten02)
Rufus Crisp, "Shout, Little Lulie" (on Crisp01)
Louise Foreacre, "Shout Little Lulu" (on CloseHomeMS)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Shout Lula" (Gennett 6373/Champion 15501 [as by Norman Gayle], 1928)
Dick Justice, "Little Lulie" (Brunswick 336, 1929)
File: RcShLulu

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